Many thanks to Dr. Joseph Facal for his thoughtful column in the Journal de Montréal (https://tinyurl.com/ycpw28hu), entitled “L’UQAM savait-elle dans quoi elle s’embarquait?“, which means “Did UQAM know what it was getting into?”
First of all, Dr. Facal is informing us about a forthcoming conference, which looks like anything but scientific. It seems to be stemming from the dangerous (and frankly stupid) marriage between ideologies like wokeism and Islamism (or political Islam).
As a reminder, wokeism is a form of modern sectarianism and Islamism is Islam’s political component. The latter refers to state authoritarianism, which pushes to impose its Islamic principles on societies. Make no mistake, Islamism is not the spiritual component of this otherwise beautiful religion (like all its sister religions). Indeed, Islamism is the ugly side if Islam. It is expanding in Québec, under the public endorsement of political parties like Québec Solidaire (QS).
Second of all, unsurprisingly, Dr. Facal is not asking the university to cancel the event, as written in his earlier column (https://shorturl.at/ScK8z). He is just attracting everyone’s attention to it.
This being said, and in the rest of this post, thanks to her loyal friend Mr. Google Translate, Bambi will leave you with Dr. Facal’s thought-provoking words:
“From September 27 to 29, UQAM will host a gathering of far-left intellectuals and activists entitled “Bandung du Nord,” in reference to the famous 1955 conference.
The event, it is emphasized, will be entirely organized by “non-white people”.
We will work towards “a political alliance between Western decolonial movements” and the fight against “the rise of supremacist nationalism and ultra-liberalism” and “imperialist domination in all its forms”.
WHO
Among the “godfathers” of the event, you will find Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, sentenced to life in prison for complicity in the assassination of American and Israeli diplomats in France, and Mumia Abu Jamal, still imprisoned for the murder of a police officer in Philadelphia.
Among the speakers, several made hateful and inflammatory remarks, such as Houria Bouteldja or Joseph Massad.
The crowdfunding campaign for this event is under the responsibility of Ms. Safa Chebbi.
On the “Indigènes de la République” website, Ms. Chebbi is proud to point out that: “The PYM [Palestinian Youth Movement] […] was the first to politicize the question of faith in the Palestinian struggle in Montreal […] .] During the demonstrations, it was the first time that we heard calls like “Allah Akbar” […] or even pauses during the marches to have a moment of prayer in the streets.”
Politicization of faith? Making Islam a political program, isn’t that the very essence of Islamism?
Chanting “Allah Akbar”? Praying in the streets?
This lady is also on the 2024-2025 board of directors of the League of Rights and Freedoms, of which we see what it has become more than 60 years after its founding and its battles of the past, notably for the right to abortion.
She is also a QS activist. On YouTube, she can be seen speaking at the nomination meeting of QS candidate in Mont-Royal–Outremont, Eve Torres, on May 26, 2018.
And who invites her on stage? Bochra Manaï.
Yes, the same Bochra Manaï, former spokesperson for the National Council of Canadian Muslims, appointed by Valérie Plante to the newly created position of commissioner for the fight against racism and systemic discrimination.
The mayor had to call her to order as her pro-Palestinian bias was so crude.
After the adoption of Bill 21 on secularism, she declared that Québec had become “a reference for supremacists and extremists around the world.”
MISSION
I could go on for a long time explaining who is who in this Quebec Wokistan.
In short, I continue to think that QS has very troubled relations with Islam.
The event at UQAM has very little to do with the advancement of authentic knowledge, the fundamental mission of a university.
Finally, I fear that the administration did not do its homework before offering its premises to these people”.
